There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.

You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.